The Golden Girls (TV Series)

The Monkey Show (1991)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

Quotes 

• Rose Nylund : [running a telethon by herself with only Blanche to man the phones]  While Blanche is doing that, why don't I head on over to the piano? I'd like to sing you a song that I used to sing as a child. It's an old Minnesotan farm song entitled "I Never Thought I'd Grow a Hair There."

  [plays a piano intro, then sings] 

  Rose Nylund : Oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa, Oh what the hell is that...

  Blanche Devereaux : Rose, we just got a pledge for twenty dollars.

  Rose Nylund : Oh! Let's go to the tote board. Drum roll!

  [grabs drum sticks and plays a roll, then hits the cymbal. $20 comes up on the tote board.] 

  Rose Nylund : We're off to a good start. OK, now where was I? Oh, yes! Where Hans first spots the hair. Oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa...

  Blanche Devereaux : Rose! Rose, I just got a pledge for fifty dollars if you will stop singing.

  Sophia Petrillo : [over the phone to Blanche]  That's right. Fifty bucks if she stops singing, and I'll throw in another fifty if you slam the piano lid on her fingers.

• Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, what are you doing?

  Sophia Petrillo : Filling sandbags, Dorothy, there's a hurricane a-comin'.

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : A-comin'?

  Sophia Petrillo : That's right. People only use the "a-" when a really big storm is a-comin' or a-brewin',

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, the weather report said nothing about a hurricane.

  Sophia Petrillo : Ida Perlberg down at the Senior Center woke up this morning with a leg cramp. Need I say more?

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Yes.

  Sophia Petrillo : Dorothy, when you get around my age, two things happen: one, you get more intuitive about the weather; and two, corn becomes your enemy.

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, even if there is a hurricane a-comin...

  Sophia Petrillo : Don't patronize me.

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : I'm not patronizing you, I'm a-mockin' you.